Production: Filming - Day 1

Today my group and I have decided to start filming for the first and second scene of our film. We met up with our actor and started filming a few clips for our scene. We had begun filming for our montage first, so we had to use a gym to get hold of the exercising machines and equipment. Before we started filming, we had decided to practice taking different shots and experimenting with different angles; we also used some time to figure out how to use the camera setting accurately e.g. how to set the white balance. After filming clips for our montage, we then moved on to filming our beginning scene, which takes place in a bathroom. We used a changing room, where we found a suitable sink and mirror for our scene, and it was successful. Overall, today was very exciting, I used a camera for the first time professionally, and I enjoyed using my camera technique skills to help decide on what camera shots and angles we should use.

Schedule for our film and a agreement letter for the premisses manager

As a group we created a schedule to help us prepare for filming. A schedule is very useful as it will help us organise ourselves and find suitable times for us to start filming. In our schedule we included:-

- The date and time of when we will carry out our filming

- The location of where the filming is going to take place - we will need to book it

- The props that will be needed

Schudule For Filming

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It was important to get permission from the premisses manager to that we can work in the school site.

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Research: Camera shots

Before starting filming, i have done some research on crucial camera shot techniques to improve my knowledge on the types of shots that can be used whilst filming. This will also allow me to find out the different  shot composition we can use in our film. This is important as it teaches why how and why a shot should be used.

Final Script; A One Man War

A one man war

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Sample Letter: Students consent form

This letter is for the students to be featured in our film. We need to get their parents consent first because they are all under 16.

Sample Letter: Students consent form

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Actor agreement form: For our lead male role

This letter was created for our chosen lead actor. In order to include him in the film, first we needed his consent.

Actor agreement form

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This is a picture of our lead actor signing the actor agreement form.

Risk assesment

This risk assessment was produced in order to help us to take caution whilst filming because we are going to be held liable for our actors injuries.

Risk assesment

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Production: Opening title:

In our group, we allocated different roles to different people for the production of different parts for our opening film title. Sharing the work helped us use our time more efficiently and allowed us to produce our title at high quality and detail. We were each allocated a role which suited our capabilities. I had the role do produce cracking effects on our title (when the silhouette of the soldier shoots at the film title its shatters like glass). I used the flash software to help me do this, it was surprisingly simple and fun, and it came out really good.

The other members of our group were given different roles, for which they used different software’s for. Khadijah was in charge of animating the movements of soldier, Tahmina had to animate our film tile and Sufia had to draw the key hole and the key.

Overall, all our work came out successful and I can’t wait to put it together.

Research: Lead room shot

The concept ‘lead room’ is used in photography and filmography. A lead room is the space that is left in the image, and it is often used in direction of moving/stationary objects. For example, moving objects such as cars require a lead room because if extra space is allowed in front of a moving car, the viewer can see that it has some place to go. Without the space, the viewer will see that it’s not moving.

Narrative theorists

Narrative theorists

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A poster to attract our main actor

This poster has been created in order to help us attract as many actors as possible for a lead male role in our film. We made the poster eye-catching and simple. We included details - such as our contacts - email address and the age range of an actor we're looking for. We haven't included any information of our film, so we told our actors that they can find out more information if they get in touch. This way, we can provide lots of information about our film and help if they don't understand, rather than stating everything down.

Research on camera settings:

Today a professional cameraman, Yoshtio Derman, came in to teach us about camera settings. As a group we focused on different camera settings; we looked at white balance and how it had an impact on images. White Balance refers to the adjustment in film imaging that corrects the colour balance of the lighting. A digital camera needs to find a reference point which represents white. It will then calculate all the other colours based on this white point. So if the camera knows the wall is supposed to be white, it will then compensate all the other colours in the scene accordingly. White objects will appear white, rather than coloured - e.g. yellow when lit by tungsten filament lights, or excessively blue under sunlight. This is because when an image is shot under different conditions white does not appear white and so, white balance corrects the balance of lighting.

This is the colour temperature - typical light source

Source: http://www.dpreview.com/learn/?/Glossary/Digital_Imaging/White_Balance_01.htm

Results from our survey:

Results from our survey

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